Inspirational "Quotes"

Here are a few quotes that people have personally found inspirational, useful or perhaps just plain funny. We hope that you find something among them that will mean something to you.

"Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow." Alice M. Swaim		"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self." Aristotle
"The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your comming when you return from your daily victory or defeat." Robert Louis Stevenson		If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau
"Suposing a tree feel down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?" "Supposing it didn't," said Pooh after careful thought. The House at Pooh Corner - A.A. Milne	"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become." Bishop Westcott
"And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!" From 'Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth' - Arthur Hugh Clough	"A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost." Jean-Paul Sartre
"Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them." Aristotle	"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it." The House at Pooh Corner - A.A. Milne

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